Ocd Quotes

“(In response to a picture critic.) I'm actually a very joyful person. But being a genius with a photographic memory mixed with a strong case of OCD makes for a difficult picture sometimes.”

“Don’t tell me you have OCD about this?”“OCD, ADHD—pretty sure if they come up with some new acronym tomorrow I’d have it.”

“Often during writing, I am compelled by OCD to delete and rewrite a word or sentence over and over again.”

“Officially, it is no more possible to be a little bit OCD than it is to be a little bit pregnant or a little bit dead.”

“Leaving knots untied and scattering seeds to distract them will only work on vampires with OCD.”

“People with OCD including myself, realize that their seemingly uncontrollable behavior is irrational, but they feel unable to stop it.”

“I have seen many cases like N. during the five years I've been in practice. I sometimes picture these unfortunates as men and women being pecked to death by predatory birds. The birds are invisible - at least until a psychiatrist who is good, or lucky, or both, sprays them with his version of Luminol and shines the right light on them - but they are nevertheless very real. The wonder is that so many OCDs manage to live productive lives, just the same. They work, they eat (often not enough or too much, it's true), they go to movies, they make love to their girlfriends and boyfriends, their wives and husbands . . . and all the time those birds are there, clinging to them and pecking away little bits of flesh.”

“I was beginning to think that Simon just had a bad case of OCD, ADD, and PMS. With a little BS and OMG mixed in.”

“Torture: knowing something makes no sense, but doing it anyways.”